Efnisyfirlit

• Contents
• Preface to the 2013 Edition
• Translators’ Note
• Preface to the English Edition
• Preface to the Italian Edition
• Acknowledgments
• 1 Menocchio
• 2 The town
• 3 First interrogation
• 4 “Possessed?”
• 5 From Concordia to Portogruaro
• 6 “To speak out against his superiors”
• 7 An archaic society
• 8 “They oppress the poor”
• 9 “Lutherans” and Anabaptists
• 10 A miller, a painter, a buffoon
• 11 “My opinions came out of my head”
• 12 The books
• 13 Readers of the town
• 14 Printed pages and “fantastic opinions”
• 15 Blind alley?
• 16 The temple of the virgins
• 17 The funeral of the Madonna
• 18 The father of Christ
• 19 Judgment day
• 20 Mandeville
• 21 Pigmies and cannibals
• 22 “God of nature”
• 23 The three rings
• 24 Written culture and oral culture
• 25 Chaos
• 26 Dialogue
• 27 Mythical cheeses and real cheeses
• 28 The monopoly over knowledge
• 29 The words of the Fioretto
• 30 The function of metaphors
• 31 “Master,” “steward,” and “workers”
• 32 An hypothesis
• 33 Peasant religion
• 34 The soul
• 35 “I don’t know”
• 36 Two spirits, seven souls, four elements
• 37 The flight of an idea
• 38 Contradictions
• 39 Paradise
• 40 A new “way of life”
• 41 “To kill priests”
• 42 A “new world”
• 43 End of the interrogations
• 44 Letter to the judges
• 45 Rhetorical figures
• 46 First sentence
• 47 Prison
• 48 Return to the town
• 49 Denunciations
• 50 Nocturnal dialogue with the Jew
• 51 Second trial
• 52 “Fantasies”
• 53 “Vanities and dreams”
• 54 “Oh great, omnipotent, and holy God . . .”
• 55 “If only I had died when I was fifteen”
• 56 Second sentence
• 57 Torture
• 58 Scolio
• 59 Pellegrino Baroni
• 60 Two millers
• 61 Dominant culture and subordinate culture
• 62 Letters from Rome
• Notes
• Index of Names
• A
• B
• C
• D
• E
• F
• G
• H
• I
• J
• K
• L
• M
• N
• O
• P
• Q
• R
• S
• T
• V
• W
• Y
• Z